Pedal-lock for automobiles.



W. R. MCKINNON 6I C. YH. BERGREN. PEDAL LOCK FOR AUTOMOBILES,`

APPLICATION FILED ocT. Is. 191s.

1,261,828. Patented Apr. 9, 1918.

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'WIILI'll/I R.' MGKINNON AND CHARLES H. BERGREN, 0F MINNEAPOLIS, -MINNESOTA.

PEDAL-LOCK FOR-AUTO1VIOBILESX- Specification of Letters Patent.

Applicationled-Oetober 18, 1915. Serial No. 56,552.

To all wlw/nit may concern.' y

Be ,it known that Lave, ILLIAM R. Mo- KINNON andGHARLEs H; BERGREN, citizens of the ,United States, Vresiding .at Minneap- Y theffollowing t b e a full, clear, and exact. description ofltheinvention, such as will enable others skilled inthe art to which yit appertains to make.` and use the same. l

Our invention relatesto pedal locks .for automobiles, particularly. -of the Ford-7 type; and,.tothis end, generally stated, thee invention consistsfot the novel devices -and4 combinations of devices. hereinafter described? and de-ned in'l the fclaims.-

In the: yaccompanying drawings, --which illustrate the invention, like characters indicatelllike parts. throughout the iseveralf views.

Referring Vto the drawings, v

Figure `1 -is a raginentaryfview showing the invention applied to a Ford automobile with the clutch pedal/locked:l in a neutral position and the reverserpedalalocked.in a disengaged position, some parts being shown in different `-,=position's :by means of broken lines and some parts being shown in section with the removed parts illustrated by means of broken lines; and

Fig. 2 is a vertical section taken on the irregular line m2 m2 of Fig. 1.

The numeral 1 indicates the upwardly inclined portion of the floor of an automobile and having a displaceable board 2. Underlying the displaceable board 2, is a channel bar 3, which forms a portion of the body structure of the automobile. A slotted metal plate 4 is rigidly secured by nutequipped bolts 5 to the upper face of the displaceable board 2. The heads of these bolts 5 are counter-sunk in the metal plate 4 and their nut-equipped ends are located on the under side of the displaceable board. The numerals 6, 7 and 8 indicate, respectively, clutch, reverse and brake foot pedals, which work through slots 9 formed in the displaceable board 2 and metal plate 4. The parts thus far described are of the standard Ford type, but, of course, may be of any desired construction.

A hasp or lock plate 10 is pivoted at 11 "to the metal plate 4, for parallel swinging movement with respect thereto, and also Patented Apr. 9, 1918'.

hav-ing aslight angular lifting'movement;l rlhis haspfl() is provided at its free end por-A -tioiilwith the customary elongatedlock-4 slot 12. Integrally formed .with one of# the longitudinal edges of the hasp 10, is alrela.- tivelyvlong finger 13 and a relatively short iinger-y 13', spaced edgewise, one from the other,and the latter located between the The lingers-13 andY linger 13 andipivot 11. 13 project acrosstlie path of movement'oi' .the clutch pedali-6, in either. direction,-andf1 hold/the saine locked in a neutral-position. The long finger 13 also. projects across the` Ypath of movement of the vreverse pedal T `and locks the saine in a disengaged:position..i

With the clutch and reverse pedals-locked,

nected'vfrom the driving wheels. Preferably,.we do notilockth'ebrake pedal'.8,.for

its clutch .andi-everse; pedals are locked, for instance, :in case of tire. Y

-as above described, the engine is disconf `'the reasonthatfit is often :desirable to move= the automobile by pushing the samefwhen movements,` and :also for -locltingxthe vdis.- placeable board 2in position, fwe provider-A a lock lug14 and pad-lock 15. As shown,

,the lock lug 14 is in the' torniy of a-Iinetalf" f strap rigidly secured by nut-equipped bolts 16 to the channel beam 3 and arranged to project through co-incident apertures 17 in the displaceable board 2 and plate 4, and also through the lock slot 12 of the hasp 10. The lock lug 14, above the hasp 10, is provided with a large perforation 18, through which the yoke of the pad-lock 15 is passed. Obviously, by rigidly securing the lock lug 14 to the channel bar 3 and locating the pad-lock 15 above the hasp 10, the displaceable board 2 is securely held in position.

The lock lug 14 is provided with vertical slots 19 to receive the nut-equipped bolts 16, in order that said lock lug 14 may be adjusted to bring the pad-lock 15 into close engagement with the hasp 10 to prevent lifting movement thereof by a tool placed under the hasp,.in view of breaking the lock and releasing the foot pedals. To prevent the long finger 13 from being pried up or bent, we provide a metal strap 20, bent to form a socket 21. This socket 21 is arranged to receive the free end of the long nger 13, when in operative position. The strap 20 is riveted or otherwise rigidly secured to the plate 4 and the upper Wall of the socket 21 is formed obliqueito force the free end of the long finger 13 onto the plate 1. With the hasp 10 and its fingers 18 and 13 held in fiat engagement with the plate 4 by the f metal plate 22 notched to receive the lockY lug 14 and assist in holding the same in position. vWith the clutch and reverse pedals securely heldby the fingers 13 and 13 and with the displaceable board 2 locked into position, it is impossible to connect the engine with the driving wheel, or to lift saidv displaceable board, in view of disconnecting the fingers 13 and 13 from the held foot pedals, or to tamper with the mechanism under the displaceable board.

The above described invention, while of small cost to manufacture, has, in actual usage, proven highly efficient 'for the purpose had in view.

What we claim is 1. The combination with an automobile having two controlling levers, of a hasp pivotally secured at one end to a relatively fixed part of the automobile and having at its free end a pair of fingers, said two fingers arranged to embrace one of' said levers and one of said fingers arranged to project in the path of movement of the other of said levers for holding said two levers in predetermined set positions, lock elements for securing the free end of the hasp to a'relatively fixed part of the automobile, and a lock vsocket into which one of said fingers Aprojects when in an operative position.

2. The combination with an automobile having laterally spaced levers, of a hasp pivotallysecured at one end to a relatively fixed part of the automobile and having at its free end ka relatively long linger and a relatively short finger, said two fingers ar-y ranged to embracelone of said levers and said long finger arranged to project in the path of movement of the other of said levers for securing said two levers in predetermined set positions, and lock elements for ysecuring the free end of said hasp to a relatively fiXed part of the automobile.

3. The combination with an automobile having rigidly secured to its body a slotted metal plate, and levers working through the slots in said'plate, of a hasp pivoted to said plate and having a pair of fingers arranged Y to hold said levers in predetermined set positions, an anchored lock lug projecting from said slotted plate and through the lock slot of the hasp, a lock coperating with the lock lug for securing the hasp thereto,

and a lock socket on said-slotted plate into which one of said lingers projects when in Copies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressing the "Commissioner ofY Ilatents,V

Washington, D. C. 

